Watch the trailer for Martin Luther King Jr. drama 'Selma'

Paramount has released the first trailer for Selma, an upcoming civil-rights drama produced by, among others, Oprah Winfrey and starring David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr.

Directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb, the film covers the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, as MLK led a movement to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The film will culminate in the march from Selma to Montgomery and President Johnson’s (Tom Wilkinson) s...